damaged motherboard

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  1. MelonHusk

    [SOLVED] Motherboard, CPU and GPU with bad PSU. Seem undamaged but are they really?

    Bought a prebuilt PC with a used PSU, that turned out to be bad, and after first 2 months the HDD(used) died, then another one (new), then finally SSD(new) became read-only. I had no idea whats going on at first, since its the first PC I bought myself . So I stopped using the PC until I can...
  2. hidekelip

    [SOLVED] I think my MB's USB outputs are busted. Won't charge cell phone anymore. HELP!

    Hello, all. Sorry for the long post. TL;DR below. I have an old rig I built myself about 9 years or so ago (it's old, but it has served me well), with a couple upgrades I've done since the initial build (specs below). I've always plugged my cell phone's USB charging cable to my PCs instead of...
  3. M

    Question Can failing GPU damage motherboard?

    Hello, I'm having trouble determining what's wrong with my PC with the following setup. CPU: i7-4770k GPU: XFX Rx 580 PSU: Rosewill Valens 700M MB: Asus ROG Maximus VII Hero Memory: HyperX Fury 2x16GB DDR3 1866 MHz Storage: 256GB Samsung SSD, 3 HDD drives I hope I didn't miss anything...
  4. B

    [SOLVED] CPU connector caught fire URGENT HELP

    I just bought this motherboard off of someone. Long story short I plugged everything into the motherboard and as I turned it on with a screwdriver by connecting the power sw pins (I have done this hundreds of times so knew what I was doing) the CPU Power Connecter made a noise and started...